skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see people talking about using Kubernetes for internal applications and I just can't figure out why.

There is benefit in having established platforms for running your code, and this is especially true for large orgs where the people who run the systems are an entirely different group from those that developed or assembled it. And people (+ their skills) are what cost the most money in any business.

It's true that many/most systems don't require a full Kubernetes stack (for instance), but if a critical mass of the business IT is going that way, doing the same with your own makes sense from an economies of scale PoV.
Brexit reality as I watch the wine supply chain collapse before my eyes
> 3) Firefox is there, it's being maintained, and you can use it. Many people do. Blanket stating that that is not an option is kind of weird. It's a fine browser. It doesn't have this problem. Chromium is also still a fine browser; and it supports extensions as mentioned before.

Seriously large caveat: YMMV.

I'm increasingly hitting weird bugs on sites with Firefox, some sufficiently complicated web "apps" just throw up "Use Chrome" overlays.

The situation is similar on Safari, although, oddly, not quite as bad.
Yes, but we already know about the rules which govern evolution, its the laws of physics.
This new paper actually makes conclusions that are the opposite of what their own data shows:

> Two things to note here. (1) the x-axis is logarithmic. There's a HUGE difference in income between the rightmost points. (2) the y-axis spans a TINY effect size. And TINY / HUGE = EVEN TINIER. 3/7

> A randomly sampled highest-income participant ($480.000) would have lower well-being than a randomly sampled lowest-income participant ($15.000) 25% and 33% of the time for the two outcome measures. Income explains 1.5% and 4% of the variance. 5/7

* https://twitter.com/jonaslindeloev/status/135383426475696537...

* https://lindeloev.net/new-pnas-paper-income-is-a-poor-way-to...
I tried to use Twitter for advertising my business. Reason why I have chosen Twitter is because somebody has told me that I can tweet via SMS, which fits perfect to my livestyle w/o smartphone. But after I have followed several dozens of similar businesses in short period of time (1 hour to find them all) my account was banned. Also I could not set up tweeting from SMS. That was my first and last experience with Twitter.
I think it's easier to run a small k8s cluster than it is to attempt to recreate a lot of the functionality provided manually, especially if you're running in a cloud where the control plane is handled for you.

It provides unified secrets management, automatic service discovery and traffic routing, controllable deployments, resource quotas, incredibly easy monitoring (with something like a prometheus operator).

Being able to have your entire prod environment defined in declarative yml is just so much better than running something like a mishmash of ansible playbooks.

If your application runs on a single host and you don't really care about SLAs or zero downtime deploys, sure, use some adhoc deploy scripts or docker compose. Any more than that, and I think k8s pays for itself.
Rolling a fair die once is gambling. Rolling an unfair die 1000 times, is a statistical investment.
Very many successful applications can indeed run on a single DB server (modulo redundancy in case of failures). Vertical scaling isn't trendy, but it is effective, until it's not.

I have yet to encounter a real situation where it suddenly became impossible to run a production DB on a single, high-spec server, without knowing far enough in advance to plan a careful migration to a horizontally scaled system if and when it was necessary.
That one's paywalled for me, too.

However, from the snippet in the Bloomberg Law version, it sounds like this unit is separate from package delivery:

> Canada’s TFI International Inc. will acquire the unit, one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in the U.S., UPS said in a statement Monday. The eight-decades-old operation, separate from the package deliveries for which UPS is known, is primarily a business-to-business enterprise hauling large industrial cargo in big trucks.

> Tome’s plan to get lean is a change from 2005, when UPS paid about $1.25 billion for...
Corporate citizenship lasts as long as you have a CEO that values it and the CEO has a highly profitable company that they can afford to be generous w/o pissing off the board.

Look at someplace like Costco- highly profitable, pays well above average for the sector, employee and community friendly policies... which would all go in the trash if Sams Club starting eating their lunch and their margins disappeared.
What's your solution? Forcing Netflix to purchase and distribute content they don't want? Do we just force Netflix, or do we force every media company to host it? Who makes that decision?

Want to vote? Stop using Facebook, stop using Twitter, stop using Netflix. The film is available for streaming elsewhere. Go watch it.
> it's efficiency in enriching participants of the stock market.

Proponents would say that it is efficienct in funding ideas that are more likely to succeed, with the partecipants in the stock market taking a commission for the transactions.
Making investments in future scalability at the cost of dev speed and performance is exactly the wrong tradeoff given that 90% of startups fail. At the start, when you have very little income, you want to allow for as much speed and flexibility as possible so that you can get to product/market fit ASAP. By the time your company gets big enough that plain MySQL/Postgres can't handle the load any longer, you will have more than enough money to afford a few experts that can help you migrate.
But there are much simpler ways than K8s to achieve automated/repeatable deployments, if that is your goal.
Oh yes, everything is fine, because HN is not censoring some anonymous reader. Come on. Control over information might be the defining issue of this century. The danger is real and existencial and as a society we are completely unprepared to meet it.
When studying international law, I learnt that a "nation-state" (in layman terms: a country) needs to have the following:

1. A defined territory.
2. A permanent population.
3. A government.
4. The capacity to enter into relations with other states.

In practice, there is one more requirement, which is perhaps the most important of all:

5. Recognition by other nation-states.

In other words: a cargo ship does not a country make.

Reference:
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/explorin...
My understanding is that while the market crashed, certain people capitalised on the bubble breaking and kept shorting until it was ran to the ground.
Not sure about that, but magnesium and ashwaganda were recommended to me for insomnia by a friend. They didn't do anything for me for my teeth grinding. Not sure about the insomnia, as I still had problems falling asleep, but -

They did give me unbelievably vivid, amazing, lucid dreams. I was in full control of my dreams, and aware of that fact that I was dreaming. I don't know if my sleep quality was better, or I was just happier that I had a fantastically creative output for my brain, but I really did feel better for the two months I took that mix.
I think it's closer to the "shed dead weight" theory of any common sense business.

TFI is a machine in this space and has acquired double-digit numbers of regional trucking services over the last 5 years. They own enough of them that there is government-level scrutiny when they acquire a new trucking company to ensure they don't have more than 50% of the business in a given region.

LTL trucking is a capitally intensive and margin-thin game, if UPS is getting a decade worth of profits of that unit from this deal, which they can allocate elsewhere to better effect, then by all means. Don't dismiss the organizational overhead of running such an entire division, even at the executive level.

>UPS Freight generated approximately US$3 billion in revenue in 2020 and was approximately breakeven from an operating income perspective.

https://tfiintl.com/en/press_releases/tfi-international-to-a...
Yeah the problem is that you basically write C in Javascript in the end. You'll constantly have to second guess which features aren't supported.
So, according to this article the Red Hat "liaison with the CentOS project" said:

« we went to the CentOS project and said, here is a thing Red Hat is going to do. We believe there are consequences of this action... the end result was the decision that got made by the project »

Something doesn't seem right, if CentOS is really a project capable of making its own decisions as he's trying to make it appear.

If that was the case, I wouldn't expect that the first thing the public to hear about the change would be the announcement that CentOS-in-its-previous-form was being discontinued.

I would expect to hear the board saying « Red Hat say they're no longer going to invest in CentOS in its current form. If nobody comes forward to invest with money or staff, we'll have to discontinue it. »
We have no idea where those come from either.
I have met few websites where you cannot uncheck the "legitimate interest" fields.
I guess I'm one of the ignorant; I'm still skeptical about derivatives. I get the need for hedging, but when you can construct something mathematically equivalent to a stock without actually putting money into the company, that seems like it could end very badly.
> The exchange of cookies is between you and the ad network, not you and the publisher hosting the ad or you and the advertiser who placed the ad.

But my browser could be smart enough to only exchange those cookies (or whatever data format we want to use) based on the current origin I'm visiting. There's no rule that requires me to use the same doubleclick session on CNN and Reddit.

If I visit a website that's classified as a news site, at that point doubleclick wants to know information about me so it can hold an auction to show me targeted ads. At that point, the browser could send doubleclick any information -- it could be based on the current origin, it could be based on the time of day, it could be based on what profile/identity I have manually switched on/off.

The point I'm getting at is the model of "you have one persistent identity that doubleclick can hook into anywhere" is already broken. Part of choosing how we present ourselves online includes the freedom to have multiple identities and to choose when/how those identities are revealed.
> While small benefits cannot be excluded, we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less restrictive interventions
For me, showing up for sunrise tends to lead to conversations with interesting people.
If the OCR is good enough to deal with these text posts, isn't it already built into screen reading software that would make the alt-text duplication unnecessary?
From the author's tweets:

This new paper actually makes conclusions that are the opposite of what their own data shows:

> Two things to note here. (1) the x-axis is logarithmic. There's a HUGE difference in income between the rightmost points. (2) the y-axis spans a TINY effect size. And TINY / HUGE = EVEN TINIER. 3/7

> A randomly sampled highest-income participant ($480.000) would have lower* well-being than a randomly sampled lowest-income participant ($15.000) 25% and 33% of the time for the two outcome measures. Income explains 1.5% and 4% of the variance. 5/7*

* https://twitter.com/jonaslindeloev/status/135383426475696537...
Why would it ever be default? Very few applications need a distributed database. These days you can get a single machine with hundreds of terabytes of storage and terabytes of RAM. Add a spare machine for failover and you have a reliable setup for any but the biggest tasks. And the tasks that that setup isn't sufficient for will certainly demand more thought than a cookie-cutter setup of some random distributed DB.
That's not fair at all. I doubt there are many who care about open source but don't make any compromises at all for the sake of convenience. We all fall somewhere in the middle. If you have the time and ability to self-host all your own services, and only use 100% open source for 100% of your computing needs, more power to you. You are in the minority though.
US current is 60Hz. EU current is 50Hz. Maybe your over maker did some rounding when adjusting by 5/6 and here you go? Btw, does your oven have a 50-60Hz switch?
This kind of opinions is why the dream of Desktop Linux will keep being a dream.
vimscript is unfortunately way too limited for this sort of tasks. I wish they had the todo list to replace it with something a bit more elegant, not goign as far as lisp or scheme but even lua or python
And 30% of profit, looks like:

> Authority imposes a fine of 100 Mio NOK (€ 9.63 Mio or $ 11.69 Mio) on Grindr. An enormous fine, as Grindr only reported a profit of $ 31 Mio in 2019 - a third of which is now gone.
I'd paste the output of ffmpeg's ./configure --help here to illustrate the point, but it would be a rather hostile HN post due to its sheer size. It's not really practical to expect someone to configure dozens or even hundreds of optional libraries in a configuration file. It would be a major hassle to have to get a config file correct rather than config detecting as much as possible. ffmpeg is an extreme case, but it's proportionally not that uncommon; many of the things people most want to compile by hand are naturally the things with a ton of optional libraries. The easy cases with 0 or a handful of options are handled by your package manager and you don't care, because there aren't any "options" for you to disagree with.
Twitter is not the problem here though. Nobody forces you to follow those accounts and you can mute/unfollow people who retweet them as well.
Does that really do anything?

If your boss or your VP tells you to do something ... point to a memo from some other VP guy?

If that's a solution it sounds like the problem is the managment, not the employees. Asking them to fight it out seems like bad advice / not likely to work.
I think this was a positive take trying to say how it could have been or should have been.

The reality I witnessed was that all these positions were held by men, usually white and Asian.

So the series paints a rosey picture where there is struggle for gender parity. This seems really rare and so the story isn’t realistic in this sense.

But this is part of the story and the characters I think are unique fiction rather than trying to be representative.

Of course there were many awesome female programmers and engineers, just they were by far rarer than their male counterparts. Thus there’s Jobs+Woz, Gates+Allen, Brin+Page and no MacMillan+Howe.
You can script it in python with the default builds I thought? I say that having not actually tried.
Louis Rossmann's take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUbJcGoYQ4
I dunno, clinging to gas seems to have been pretty lucrative for the last years/decades,.even if the switch is inevitable (if only bc gas is a finite resource). If the big oil companies had been really motivated to push alternative vehicles I'm sure we'd be a lot closer to 100% off petroleum by now.
CloudLinux is also working on a CentOS replacement.

https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-communit...
>Open source isn't in their business model

There's a very good possibility that Linux wouldn't have had the impact that it has had absent IBM's investments in the early 2000s. It's not an "open source company" but it has significant investments in open source.
Even Youtube, Vimeo and Peertube?

Besides a simple Google search brings a free one on Youtube made by Deutche Welle.
There are many companies that are growing on free software without contributing to it much, however I would hesitate to add Red Hat to that category.

First of all they were one of the first Linux distro (I remember installing 4.2 at home) with Debian and Slackware. At those times making Linux distro was a highly unprofitable business. Companies did not care about Linux at all. Windows, Sparx, AIX, IBM mainframes, etc. everywhere.

Yet Red Hat people had a vision that Linux could be a thing in the real World and I would say, they deserve a premium for all those hungry years.

Second, Red Hat is one of the largest corporate contributors to Linux kernel. I bet that, for instance, Amazon AWS is making way more money on Linux and open software than Red Hat, yet their contribution is not particularly significant.

I am not surprised that Red Hat is not supporting financially something that is a rip-off of their software. A legal rip-off obviously and Red Hat is not suing or spreading FUD about such initiatives, but I don't see any reason why they should financially back them.
Not exactly. The Twitter brand isn't looking so hot right now.

I think it's the same thing with Slack, Slack only exists because Microsoft teams is made by Microsoft.

I swear to God it's mostly a placebo effect, but you're like oh yeah we're using slack we're the cool kids now. Many companies will have a single breakaway team that uses slack just to feel cool.

But if $10 a month makes a developer happier she might produce another $500 in value.
Many comments are mentioning Netflix. It's worth mentioning Amazon and Apple have rejected it too.

Edit: Apple and Amazon seem to have picked up the documentary since the time of the interview.
I'd add that as a tall person - The acceptability of reclining your seat should also have to do with the height of the person behind you.
The letter mentions that "building an Autotools-based project directly from its VCS checkout is often significantly harder than building it from a tarball release, and may involve tracking down and installing any number of unusual tools."

Why would that be? They both just seem like a source distribution to me... why would there be a difference? Can anyone explain this?
As the article points out, it's about reality being controlled. In this case the user wrote something to change reality for their benefit.

The change they want is for more people to play the wsb game. And for more people to believe that the game has many winners. The mistake is that their message was untruthful, it was an exaggerated attempt to create hype.

Or. It was a user lying to make them get attention on the internet and feel better for a short amount of time, but I like my first idea as it's directly called out in the subject we are discussing. Thanks for unveiling it!

edits - I think its also like if you say something is important enough, it becomes important. So if wall street are still debating if wsb is or isnt actually relevant it means they already are. So the message is twofold. Firstly it's a "play the game, we need the hype" but more like "these comments have importance in itself because we say so". It's similar to meme magic - to say that 4chan memed Trump into office is utterly ridiculous, in reality they didn't. But enough people believed they might have and looked into it and thought maybe they did, that the effect of 4chan became important. A magic trick is about what you think you saw after you leave the theatre.

edit2 - and even my comment reinforces the effectiveness of the strategy just by commenting on it!
Hi @gvinciguerra, thanks for your reply!

I mainly stated your solution is about the size of the index and not the values because others comments at the time questioned if it's possible at all. I wanted to add my bits trying to decipher what this is. :)

I have implemented a custom index myself so I'm really interested in this stuff but I have to admit I don't understand the language used to explain it. I'm not sure who the audience is. If it's not only targeted at researchers but also random programmers out there, maybe consider adding either an ELI5 translation to things or more proof that it's worth investing time in this (eg. learning your lingo). For example, by adding performance charts. I totally missed that.

Wow, looking at it again, I now see you have some charts at the bottom of your slides. I'm pretty sure 99% of your visitors did not find it. And even so, I'm not quite sure I understand those charts.

My 2 cents:

1) Simplify them. Don't pack so much info in a single chart. This prevents me from getting to the AHA moment. Maybe show them on separate tabs.

2) Move this chart/these charts to the top of your home page. I knew this is about an index before landing on your site, so when I landed, I had exactly 1 question in my mind: Should I care? Your homepages did not answer that. I found links to papers which I don't even open as I believe they are huge time investment and I want to first figure out if I should invest more time. I was happy about the slides because slides are about selling the big ideas. It was better than the home page but in the end I left not having my only question answered. I saved the link. I will probably remember to look at it again when I have special requirements for an index. But I'm not motivated to invest more time right now, I'll keep reading my book in the mornings instead of your paper.

(I'm sharing this so you can improve the site if you want.)
One week ago: This paper is rife with denialism and its authors should be deplatformed and canceled. FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!

Now: Things are going so much better under Biden.
I've found my Stream Deck pretty useful as a developer for organizing my windows across my three monitors. Quick shortcuts to move windows between displays, position, and resize them in preset areas.
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I suggest you to continue watching all others seasons if I can give you an advise :).
That's right, to me the first serie is amazing, by the way the other ones aren't bad too. I appreciate in HCF the explanation of a company life where problems can happens in any time, fight between people and the risks and possibilities to fail
> If you release v1 and v2 under GPL and then switch to a proprietary license for v3, I'm assuming v2 can still be forked, since many people now have started using that code under the license they were offered at the time?

That is correct. Once v2 has been released under the terms of any permissive license – GPL, 2-BSD, MIT – and you get a copy, you are free to continue following the terms of that license. The holder of the copyright cannot retroactively change the old license.
Reality is something else ...

You shouldn't rely on numbers that you see on the network ...

Particularly on social media websites ...
Ugh, that's unfortunate. =\

After looking at this repo more closely, this really is pretty suboptimal. build.sh is incredibly flexible, but yeah- no documentation on what you'd need to build a non-pfsense branded product.

That's pretty weird, given how much of this system seems to be geared towards being generically applicable and has some replacements aimed directly at rebranding some literal occurrences of "pfSense".
Neovim started out as a quite interesting project but now I don't see a reason to use it. Not that I think it was pointless for the project to start in the first place. The competition seemed to motivate Vim devs to make advancements.
Of course they have to track that they aren’t tracking you, or else you would get the consent banner repeatedly on every page load.
Unfortunately this is accurate.
How to protect Azure resources from DDoS?
Impossible? Tell that to Flow: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/01/new_browser...
Given that you're competing with Peloton (or at least in the same general market), how do you plan to respond to the rumored Peloton Rower? https://www.pelobuddy.com/peloton-rower

It's going to be hard to position yourself as the Peloton for Rowing when Peloton actually has a Peloton for Rowing.